Cloud Administrator Salary in Chicago, Illinois

How much does a Cloud Administrator make in Chicago, IL?

As of April 01, 2025, the average annual salary for a Cloud Administrator in Chicago, IL is $134,774. Salary.com reports that pay typically ranges from $122,355 to $149,115, with most professionals earning between $111,048 and $162,171.

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Participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment, security, and high availability in support of Infrastructure, Software and Platform as a Service offerings.

October 23, 2022

Understanding of many Operating System platforms including Windows Server, Linux, Red Hat Linux and how each performs in a virtualized system.

October 28, 2022

Manage, track, research, communicate regarding and resolve incoming service requests from end users in a professional, timely, and accurate manner.

February 07, 2023

Set direction for daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes or disks are created, and media is recycled and sent off site as necessary.

February 26, 2023

Develop procedure documentation by draftingand maintaining documentation to include best practices, configuration guides, maintenance logs, equipment databases and operating procedures.

March 05, 2023

Hands-on experience on various azure based IaaS and PaaS components deployments like VM, Azure data bricks , HDInsight cluster, Azure SQL, webapps.

March 12, 2023

Assist with incident response and investigations related to data breaches, including documentation, mitigation, remediation, and corrective actions plans to protect sensitive data.

March 13, 2023

Provide support to developers and production services operating in NCBI's Amazon AWS and Google GCP environments * Participate in discussions of ongoing technical and management efforts, including new architecture design and refinements to existing operations * Participate in evaluation and implementation of new and emerging technologies * Ongoing operation and maintenance of existing services * Assist with development of cloud-based services in parallel on both Amazon AWS and Google GCP * Assist with development of tools to help manage the cloud environments and enforce established policies.

March 20, 2023

Implement and maintain Active Directory Domain Controllers, including GPOs, ACLs, PKI, and DFS, in the Development, Stage, and Production Environments.

April 03, 2023

Monitor server and application performance, resource utilization, and assist the senior staff in forecasting resource needs.

May 16, 2023

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Average Salary Range for Cloud Administrator in Chicago, IL

Average Base Salary

Core compensation

122355

149115

134774

Average Total Cash Compensation

Includes base and annual incentives

127081

158808

141567

What is the average salary for Cloud Administrator in 2025?

These charts show the average base salary (core compensation), as well as the average total cash compensation for the job of Cloud Administrator in Chicago, IL. The base salary for Cloud Administrator ranges from $122,355 to $149,115 with the average base salary of $134,774. The total cash compensation, which includes base, and annual incentives, can vary anywhere from $127,081 to $158,808 with the average total cash compensation of $141,567.

View Average Salary for Cloud Administrator as table

	Average Salary	Average Salary Range
Base Salary	$134,774	$122,355 - $149,115
Bonus	$6,793	$4,726 - $9,694
Total Pay	$141,567	$127,081 - $158,808

* Base Salary represents gross income before taxes and deductions. It does not include additional pay such as benefits, bonuses, profit sharing or commissions.

* Total Pay combines base salary, bonuses, profit sharing, tips, commissions, overtime pay and other forms of cash earnings, as applicable for this job.

Cloud Administrator Salary Near Chicago, IL

CITY, STATE	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE	COMPARE TO Chicago, IL
CITY, STATE Cicero, IL	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $122,355 - $149,115	COMPARE TO Chicago, IL 0%
CITY, STATE Oak Park, IL	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $122,355 - $149,115	COMPARE TO Chicago, IL 0%
CITY, STATE Oak Lawn, IL	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $122,212 - $148,941	COMPARE TO Chicago, IL
CITY, STATE Evanston, IL	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $122,307 - $149,057	COMPARE TO Chicago, IL
CITY, STATE Skokie, IL	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $122,307 - $149,057	COMPARE TO Chicago, IL
CITY, STATE Arlington Heights, IL	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $119,797 - $145,998	COMPARE TO Chicago, IL

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About Chicago, Illinois

Chicago (/ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ/ (listen), locally also /-ˈkɔː-/), officially the City of Chicago, is the most populous city in Illinois, as well as the third most populous city in the United States. With an estimated population of 2,716,450 (2017), it is the most populous city in the Midwest. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, and the county seat of Cook County, the second most populous county in the United States. The metropolitan area, at nearly 10 million people, is the third-largest in the United States, and the fourth largest in North A...

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